vm_map_delete(9)

vm_map_delete9

Deallocate an address range from a map

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <vm/vm.h>

#include <vm/vm_map.h>

int

vm_map_delete(vm_map_t map, vm_offset_t start, vm_offset_t end);

Overview

The vm_map_delete() function deallocates the address range bounded by start and end from the map.

Implementation notes

This function is for FreeBSD VM internal use only. The vm_map_remove(9) function should be called by FreeBSD VM consumers instead.

Return values

The vm_map_delete() function always returns KERN_SUCCESS.

Releases

54 releases since FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE; the text changed 34 times.

  1. 5.2–5.2.1
  2. 5.3–5.5
  3. 6.0–6.3
  4. 6.4
  5. 7.0
  6. 7.1
  7. 7.2
  8. 7.3
  9. 7.4
  10. 8.0
  11. 8.1
  12. 8.2
  13. 8.3
  14. 8.4
  15. 9.0
  16. 9.1
  17. 9.2
  18. 9.3
  19. 10.0
  20. 10.1
  21. 10.2
  22. 10.3
  23. 10.4
  24. 11.0
  25. 11.1
  26. 11.2
  27. 11.3
  28. 11.4
  29. 12.0
  30. 12.1
  31. 12.2
  32. 12.3
  33. 12.4
  34. 13.0–13.2
  35. 13.3–16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Bruce M Simpson ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.